For years Tobias Lachmann posted a list of Check Point hardware, for the last time on July 30th 2015. I am continuing and extending the list for the new appliances. Therefore I need your contribution. If you have an appliance at your fingers please be so kind to issue these commandscat /proc/cpuinfo > lachmann.txt
cat /proc/meminfo >> lachmann.txt
and sent the file lachmann.txt with the appliance type as subject to lachmannlist@fink.sh. I will try to update the list by time.

Have you ever been frustrated that simple scripting is a problem when doing things on your Check Point firewall? There is a reason why compilers and scripting tools are very limited on such devices. The less options a potential attacker finds to do harm with the better.

As far as I remember from different trainings Check Point uses a GCC compiler to build the policies. But this compiler is said to be stripped down to a large extent.

And there exists Python within GAiA. I would not suggest to use this Python on a gateway, but on a management server it could be very useful.